NelsonHall Analyst Report: Bonitasoft

This NelsonHall assessment analyzes Bonitasoft's offerings and capabilities in Business Process & Case Management Technology Evaluation.

The NelsonHall report on Bonita

NelsonHall's analyst report analyzes the technology offer of the Bonita platform for:

• Application development and functionality
• Mobile integration
• Data integration and interoperability
• Process modeling
• Business process management
• Case management
• Task management

The report also assesses Bonitasoft’s product development strategy, strengths, and challenges

Bonitasoft as a company addresses

• the limitations of common solutions in the space through an approach that makes professional IT users and business users equal contributors
• the short term need to digitalize operations, which typically means optimizing business processes through automation.
• the longer term need to modernize information systems, including the infrastructure, organizational practices, and employee skills around these systems

The report analyzes the two main components of the Bonita platform

• Bonita Studio: the development environment for the Bonita Platform that includes an embedded non-production-use Bonita stack for application testing
  • Data Handling and Integration: integration of external systems using connectors and managing data using Business Data Models
  • Process Modeling: the primary way for designing processes against the BPMN 2.0 standard
  • UI Designer: a WYSIWYG tool to design application interfaces, including pages and process forms, in addition to reports and dashboards
• Bonita Runtime: the production runtime environment with a portal to perform server administration and monitoring for administrators, and a generic process view for users
• Bonita Intelligent Continuous Improvement: an add-on for process mining of Bonita Runtime data to provide predictive analytics.

The report acknowldeges that Bonitasoft has developed a community of 150k members in 75 countries around its open-source products, and has a partner community of 120 organizations, mainly in Europe, but with a substantial portion also in NA and LATAM.

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